Automobile headlight



Aug. 3 1926.

R. A, RussE| L, JR

AUTOMOBILE HEADLIGHT Filed July 8, 1925 Iriver/757:

Patented Aug. A3, 19.26.

UNITED STATES l 1,595,025 'PATENT OFFICE.

:aUrUs A. nUssELL, Jn., or MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA.

AUTOMOBILE HEADLIGHT.

Application filed .Tuly 8, 1,925. Serial No. 42,243.

My said invention relates to automobile headlights and it is-.an object of the invention to provide a headlight which will not only clearly illuminate the roadway immediately adjacent to and at a distance from the front of the vehicle upon which the same is mounted but which will also cast its light upon the edges of the roadway and at a distance to the side ofthe vehicle upon the adjoining area thus affording a safety of operation .not present in the conventional forms of headlights now in use.

A further object of the invention is to providea device of this character which will -16 not blind a person looking directly into the samebut instead will cast a soft mellow sheet of light.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts,

Figure 1 is a front elevation o f the invention with part of the lens and frame broken away,

1 Figure 2, a section on line 2-2 of Figure s an i i Figure 3,`a perspective of the reflector.

In carrying out the foregoing objects I provide one elongated reector which is adapted to be mounted by any desired means across the front of the vehicle and at substantially the same height as the two lights ordinarily used. I

lThe device comprises a casing 10 in which is mounted a reflector 11, said casing being open at one side and being provided with a lens 12. The reflector 11 is fprovided with a plurality of sockets 13 space longitudinally alon the centra-l portion ofthe same and adapte to receive lamps 14. Said reflector 11 is preferabl narrow centra longitudinall extending 'concave portion or' trough andy is convexly curved between said portion and the upper and lower side edges o the reiiector. By this construction light from the/lamp 14 striking the concave portion will be projected in' strong rays directly ahead while the light rays striking the convex portion of `the reiiector will be broken u or diffused and will not be concentrated. vided with end tially the same 1nA cross section as the rear portion of the reflector and serving to project the light beyond the opposite ends of the reector. Also the light from each of the formed with a relatively e reflector 11 is 'prortions 15 formed-.substan-a lamps 14will strike the reflector at an angle and be projected at substantially the same angle from the longitudinal center of the reflector.

In order to prevent the rays of light striking the concave central portion of the reiiec- Vtor and being projected upwardly a/suflicient y,

distance to blind a personlooking at the light I provide a lens as shown in Figuresv 1 and 2 having a substantially flat plain' band 16 extending longitudinally and centrally of the same over the series of lamps 14 but having its upper and lower portions formed to break up the rays of light as for example -by `frosting or providing the same with angular portions as shown.

The casingl for the lens may be provided vention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A headlight comprising an elongated reflector-'having a relatively narrow longitudinally extending central depression and provided with convexly curved portions at theJ upper and lower edges thereof, and a plurality of lights mounted in spaced 'relation in said depression said reiector havlng end portions provided ,with reflecting surfaces similar 1n crross section to the main body of the reflector, substantially as set forth. v

2. A reflector comprising a body havlng a central longitudinally disposed trough with convex side portions extending upwardly and downwardly therefrom and outwardly extending end portions for said body also having a centra longitudinally dis osed trough with convex portions extending t ere- -from and forming reflecting surfaces, sub- I stantially as set forth.

3. An automobile headlight comprising an elongatedcasing, an elongated reiiector within said casing having'a relativel narrow depression extending longitudine y thereof and providin a reflecting surface and havin longitu mally arranged convexly curve reflecting surfaces at the` sides of said depression, and a lens for said headlight having a plain band extending longitudinally over the narrow depression said lens having prismatie portions at each side of said narrow band whereby the light will be releoted from the central depression through the narrow band of the lens directly ahead of the light while the light reflected from the convex longitudinally extending surfaces will be projegted toward one edge of the headlight, substantially as set forth.

4. In a headlight the combination of an elongated shallow reflector having a relatively narrow depression extending longitudinally thereof providing a reflecting surface with longitudinally arranged convexly Curved reflecting surfaces at the sides of said depression, and a source of light positioned ahead of the eonvexly curved reflecting surfaces, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Hendersonville, North Carolina this 6th day of July, A.. D. nineteen hundred and twenty-five.

RUFUS A. RUSSELL, JR. [a j 

